1. When PO brings up an interesting idea, how should a team response?

a. if feature/idea sounds out of the box, team must accept it in the backlog
b. team should analyze the feature/idea based on domain knowledge, validate the same & suggest
improvements
c. even if the feature/idea is not so new, as the PO understands the market demands better, team
should accept it. >> Ans
d. Team to analyze the technical feasibility and capacity before accepting the idea.
2. When you have more than one agile team working on a single product, which are crucial
considerations?
e. All teams need to have similar agile maturity
f. PO/Product specialist to devote similar time to all teams>>Ans
g. Teams to have occasional synch-up meets to eliminate dependencies >> Ans
h. All teams to have an identified coordinator and they stay in continuous touch to eliminate
differences >> Ans
3. Suggested way to share & sustain knowledge with members in a team?
i. Sharing of best practices and lesson learnt through emails
j. Sharing knowledge through knowledge sharing sessions
k. Sharing knowledge through informal conversations eg lunch breaks
l. Updating best practices, lesson learnt and other topics in a central place accessible to all >> Ans
4. Standard way to get for anyone outside an agile team (eg delivery partner) to get the work status
any time?
m. He/she can refer physical/digital Kanban board maintained by the team >> Ans
n. All team members need to send email updates to him/her daily
o. Have status review meeting whenever required
p. By talking to each team member daily to understand the status
5. What do you think is a good way for team members to remain updated on work status at any given
time?
q. Having a updated physical/digital Kanban board>> Ans
r. Sharing status through email with all
s. Sharing individual updates with the lead and the lead sharing a consolidated summary with all
t. Sharing and referring status reports that are shared daily
6. Recommended way to run retrospective?
u. Team discusses the feedback received during iteration demo, creates a roadmap in
retrospective
v. Team discussed how they can improve their way of working, picks up one or two improvement
areas for next iteration>> Ans
w. Team takes a stock of current velocity and forecasts the velocity for the next iteration
x. Team is encouraged to identify and take up process improvement initiatives
7. Effective way to ensure that the integrated code is working as per the acceptance criteria?
y. Through automated functional tests
z. Through manual functional tests
aa. Through automated unit tests>>Ans
bb. Through manual unit tests
8. In a team if someone gets stuck in the technical tasks during the iteration, what is the immediate
next step?
cc. W/o wasting time, the team member has to infirm the lead/onsite coordinator and take up
another task
dd. Team members can reach out to other team members for help>>Ans
ee. Team member can raise the issue during team retrospective
ff. Team member must search in google, technical forums w/o wasting time
9. In an agile team, how would a team member know what others are working on?
gg. PO & SM are responsible for maintaining work transparency
hh. Team should have a daily synch up >>Ans
ii. Onsite coordinator should share daily status for each member
jj. They may know from the backlog maintained in a tool (Jira, Prime etc.) which will show the
items assigned to each members
10. After a team member creates a working code at her level, what is the fundamental way to ensure
quality of each line?
a. Through peer review
b. Through functional testing done by testers
kk. Through formal unit testing using tools/s/w/plugins>>Ans
11. If you are working in a customer facing agile team, who is more mature/ready for agile?
c. Our TCS team
d. Customer team
e. Both are equal
ll. Not sure>>Ans
12. For any meeting that development team members, working in agile, have among them, what are
the points to consider?
mm. Dev team must keep such meetings to minimal or zero occurrences>>Ans
nn. Dev team must not allow such meetings to go beyond an hour
f. Dev team must restrict such meetings to max 30mins, with few exceptions
oo. Dev team to decide on numbers & duration of such meetings based on situations>>Ans
13. How should a team have quality standards built into its deliverables?
g. By procuring the best test automation suite applicable for the team
h. By having an agreed & evolving set of DoD items, which are automated wherever possible>>Ans
i. By having robust definition of ready mechanism so that stories are granular enough
j. team must have a string set of quality assurance professionals to create built in quality
14. Agile WoW in meetings run?
k. Meetings must be scheduled with a lead time so that the participants can plan their work better
l. Meetings must have a set agenda to facilitate a focused discussion and reduce digressions
m. Meetings must be facilitated and time-boxed>>Ans
n. team lead/SM must facilitate discussions but he/she may close meetings as per preference
15. for an agile team, easy way to track the task?
o. SM knows the status as he/she only assigns tasks to members, he/she can use any tool to
manage the same
p. Onsite members are in a better position to track tasks at their end as they co-ordinate between
PO and rest of the team
 q. All the tasks can be maintained in a common place (jira,,physical board etc.) with an indication
doing, done, to be done>>Ans
r. Customer/PO should manage & track the tasks through any available tool
16. Given a piece of work to be executed in agile, how would you form a team?
s. Team must have all the skills required. Team size will depend on scope & budget
t. Team must have all required skills, hc being less than 12 >>Ans
u. Team must have all experienced people, hc not exceeding 9
v. Team must have mix of experience & freshers with right skills. Team size depends on scope &
budget
17. In a team, if all members do regular check-in of the code, then how should one ensure that the code
is not broken anywhere?
w. Through SCM triggered build >>Ans
x. Through scheduled build
y. By triggering automated build after check-in
z. Through SCM based code branching
18. How does an Agile team manage requirements in a productive manner?
aa. Business analyst should manage the business requirement & technical team should manage the
technical requirements
bb. Every team members should maintain a personal backlog of items they are working on
cc. SM/Onsite coordinator to manage the requirements & communicate the tasks to the team
members
dd. All the requirements should be maintained in a common place such as Jira/Whiteboard>>Ans
19. When multiple teams are working on a related feature, how often should they integrate their work?
ee. Depends on whether the integration will break the build
ff. After they reach a logical end of the coding the functionality
gg. In a scheduled daily frequency >>Ans
hh. In a scheduled weekly frequency
20. How you gone through Living agile session?
ii. Yes
jj. No>>Ans
21. How does the team know what to work upon during the iteration?
kk. Team participates in iteration planning during which lead/SM decides who should work on what
ll. Team participates in iteration planning during which the team discusses with the PO & finalizes
who should work on what>>Ans
mm. SM has regular interaction with PO, he/she guides the team on the tasks to be taken up
nn. Iteration plan to be shared by PO beforehand, any spill over from last iteration is taken up by
default
22. How can one ensure that code adheres to the good coding standards?
oo. It can be checked against the coding standards for the technology used by the similar project
pp. Code has to be reviewed by the technical expert of the team
qq. Code has to pass though the static code analysis w/o any violations>>Ans
rr. Code has to be self-reviewed to verify coding standards against a documented checklist
23. In the middle of the iteration, how does a team handle requirement changes from the customer?
ss. Its not recommended to incorporate any changes during an ongoing iteration
 tt. Team can always take up the changes and extend iteration duration if needed
uu. Team has to exchange the stories if the Scrum Master/Lead convey the criticality of the changes
vv. Team may take up the changes in flight after discussing the overall impact with the Product
owner >>Ans
24. What happens if the offshore team members are not able to participate in the iteration demo due
to timezone/infrastructure issues?
ww. No issues. Onsite team members can have the iteration demo with the Product owner, it is a
single team anyways
xx. Offshore members will miss the opportunity to interact with the product owner and get the
direct feedback about the increment they created >>Ans
yy. No major issue. Since offshore lead and onsite members participate in the demo with the
product owner, they can cascade the feedback back to the offshore members
zz. It is a loss as the offshore members will not be able to contribute to ideas related to way of
working
25. What happens if the offshore team members are not able to participate in the iteration demo due
to timezone/infrastructure issues?
aaa. No issues. Onsite team members can have the iteration demo with the Product owner, it is a
single team anyways
bbb. Offshore members will miss the opportunity to interact with the product owner and get the
direct feedback about the increment they created>>Ans
ccc. No major issue. Since offshore lead and onsite members participate in the demo with the
product owner, they can cascade the feedback back to the offshore members
ddd. It is a loss as the offshore members will not be able to contribute to ideas related to way
of working
26. How does an agile team obtain clarity on backlog items that may be picked up in subsequent
iterations?
eee. Team discusses and clarifies doubts on backlog items in the iteration planning meeting
fff. Product owner creates detailed user stories (Definition of ready) in the backlog before the
iteration starts
ggg. Team can interact with the product owner multiple times during an iteration without
waiting for the next iteration planning
hhh. Team can have backlog refinement session with the product owner during every
iteration for gaining clarity on the subsequent ones>>Ans
27. If you are an agile team, models?
iii. M1
jjj. M2
kkk.M3 OR M4
lll. This model is not used >>Ans
28. When in a team, following location independent Agile model, there are people distribution across
geographies?
mmm. The members must have at least 3 hrs overlap time between all of them>>Ans
nnn. The Members must have at least the daily synch-up together
ooo. All team members must have a common 3 hours in a week to sort out dependencies
ppp. All team members must come together at least once everyday. Amount of time overlap
can be flexible.